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  • African American Religion

    Varieties of Protest and Accommodation

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Now in an updated second edition, African American Religion remains an invaluable overview of the great diversity of religious groups within the modern African American community. This plethora of forms reflects a tension that has characterized African American religion since its beginnings—a tension between accommodation to and protest against white society’s domination.Viewing African American ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change

    Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Anthropology
    This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.The book focuses on the critical anthropology of climate change by opening up a dialogue with the two main contending perspectives in the field, namely the cultural ecological and the cultural interpretive perspectives. Guided by these, the authors take a firm stance on the types of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Human and Planetary Health

    An Ecosyndemic Approach

    by Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This text introduces undergraduate and graduate students in health or environment-related classes to the mounting crisis of syndemics through the lens of planetary health. The concept of syndemics, developed by the author and now in wide use across multiple health-related disciplines, focuses attention on the adverse synergistic interaction of two or more diseases or other health conditions ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Introducing Health Anthropology

    A Discipline in Action

    by Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Debbi Long, Alex Pavlotski ...
    With a new title that reflects the broad scope and primary concerns of the field, Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, Fourth Edition, provides students with a first look at the dynamic discipline of medical and health anthropology.The narrative is guided by four unifying themes. First, health anthropologists are heavily involved in the process of helping to better understand ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • COVID-19 Syndemics and the Global South

    A World Divided

    Edited by Inayat Ali, Merrill Singer, Nicola Bulled ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID‑19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities. The pandemic has exposed and multiplied structural inequalities and certain subpopulations were more exposed to COVID‑19 as well as experienced greater morbidity and mortality. The effects of the pandemic differ between countries but have had an ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Anthropology of Infectious Disease

    by Merrill Singer ...
    This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework. Leading medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically unites the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, showing how we exist with pathogenic agents of disease in a complex process of co-evolution. He also connects human diseases to larger ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, César E. Abadía-Barrero ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    The fully revised new edition of the defining reference work in the field of medical anthropologyA Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition provides the most complete account of the key issues and debates in this dynamic, rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions by leading international authorities in medical anthropology, this comprehensive reference work presents critical ... Read more

    $212.99 CAD

  • Ecosystem Crises Interactions

    Human Health and the Changing Environment

    by Merrill Singer ...
    Explores the human impacts on environment that lead to serious ecological crises, an innovative resource for students, professionals, and researchers alikeEcosystem Crises Interaction: Human Health and the Changing Environment provides a timely and innovative framework for understanding how negative human activity impacts the environment, and how seemingly disparate factors connect to, and magnify ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Foundations of Biosocial Health

    Stigma and Illness Interactions

    by Bayla Ostrach, Nicholas Emard, Theodore Gideonse, Seung Yong Han, Ruthanne Marcus, Gerald McKinley, Mary A. Ott, Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer0, Kara Wools-Kaloustian1, Amber Wutich2, Shir Lerman Ginzburg4, Harrison M.K. Maithya5, Merrill Singer7 ...
    The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health

    Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions

    by Hans Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Series series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology
    In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a new paradigm for ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Critical Medical Anthropology

    by Merrill Singer, Hans Baer ...
    Series series Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
    The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health, disease, illness ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • The Social Value of Drug Addicts

    Uses of the Useless

    by Merrill Singer, J Bryan Page ...
    Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyze media representations, drug policy, and underlying social ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD